If you just snap a selfie you’ll see an already enhanced version of you. So you don’t have to do any manual tweaking yourself (though you also can if you like). Of course there’s no shortage of other smartphone apps out there on stores - and/or baked right into smartphones’ native camera apps - offering to ‘beautify’ selfies.īut the push-button pull here is that Lensa automatically - and, it claims, professionally - performs AI-powered retouching of your selfie. (Which feels as weird to see as it sounds to type.) The last slider on the app’s face menu offers this feature, letting you play around with making micro-adjustments to the 3D mesh underpinning your face. “Our algorithm reconstructs face in 3D and fixes those disproportions,” is how it explains that. Lensa can also correct for lens distortion, such as if a selfie has been snapped too close.

There’s also a background blur option for adding a little bokeh to make your selfie stand out from whatever unattractive clutter you’re surrounded by - much like the portrait mode that Apple added to iOS two years ago. It bills Lensa as a “one-button Photoshop”, offering a curated suite of photo-editing features intended to enhance portrait photos - including teeth whitening eyebrow tinting ‘face retouch’ which smooths skin tone and texture (but claims to do so naturally) and ‘eye contrast’ which is supposed to make your eye color pop a bit more (but doesn’t seem to do too much if, like me, you’re naturally dark eyed). An Android version of the app - which is called Lensa - is slated as coming in January. Prisma Labs, the startup behind the style transfer craze of a couple of years ago, has a new AI-powered iOS app for retouching selfies.

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